My Psychologist Told Me to Stop Listening To His Bullshit (with Camwhore) (1167 hits)
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Submitted by someone (View user info) at 2008-02-28 00:40:14 EST
Psychology in general has been quite irking to me lately. Subsequent meetings with a professional of the field have reaffirmed my distrust for these doctors of the mind and in fact, lead me inclined to believe my mental ailments are worse for it. Another example is my girlfriend's incapable mind doctor, a distrustful man who recently told her: "Perhaps your love for him, like past relationships, have been nothing beyond filling a void for the love you've tried to receive from your father".
What of it? I found the entire statement to be obvious, so much so that it needn't be stated aloud. So, if my other finds love where she once lacked it, does that therefore mean her choices in relationships are tainted? I find the whole practice logically circular and unsound.
For example, a psychologist largely (for argument's sake, my small study group) seeks to offer methods to extract and analyze repressed or 'abstract' thought in the individual. As Daniel says; "That's fine".
However, I'm under the serious impression that individual thought, at the very least mine, is the most dishonest and inconsistent of processes. In daily life, how many things do we face that are constants? Furthermore, the relatively 'consistent' external world is always just out of reach. Daily emotional thought processes are largely varied: One day work might seem great, another day you'd like to bury your wife alive, year from year finances fluctuate drastically. How can constant thoughts be processed that can then be analyzed and dissected and then be called a science? This is no heart, nor lungs—instead, we are attempted to analyze a muscle that the individual cannot look externally on.
Hold it right there! In no way am I suggested that self-reflection be a drastic waste of time. It is said history holds the keys to the future. I'm merely suggesting we understand it's inaccuracies.
I'm going to Okemo in six hours. Have fun at work, suckers.
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Submitted by spacemonkey (user info) at 2008-03-05 10:17:48 EST (#)
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I downloaded utorrent as my research suggested it was the best, and damn thats some fast shit. I downloaded adobe photoshop in no time! It was a bit harder to set up than say ares for example but the pay off is much better. Definately worth the hassle.
I talked to matt today. that was nice. and bj sent me a facebook invite. its weird hearing from everyone again now.
You haven't responded and i dont know if it was something i said(or didn't say) or if youre just busy but id like to hangout some time. its pretty hard for me because i work third shift these days.
Submitted by spacemonkey (user info) at 2008-03-01 06:40:45 EST (#)
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Ok, so p2ps are out and torrents are in. Never even heard of them before. I tried getting my girlfriend to explain but she didn't really feel like it. I'm sure I can figure it out.
That band Estradasphere is like if Mozart, Frank Zappa and Dave Mustaine were playing Nintendo together. Thats a good description even if it is somewhat limiting.
I agree that the world is a steaming shit pile, and I agree that we should hang out. First off lets establish a more direct line of communication. my email is aketch20two.at.gmail.com. I'd give you my cell phone number but I really don't feel like getting a call from some random stranger who saw it over the internet.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-29 09:56:37 EST (#)
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Oh, and use a bittorrent for music. P2P software is outdated and full of viruses. A bittorrent is a bit harder to use but downloads entire CD's/games/movies at blazing speeds. Check it out:
http://www.torrentreactor.net/
You need to download a torrent first. These are only the links, but I'm sure you can figure it out.
Cheers!
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-29 09:54:20 EST (#)
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Ending lyrics to Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth--
Just listen to me I won't pretend to
Understand the movement of the wind
Or the waves out in the ocean or how
Like the hours I change softly slowly
Plainly blindly oh me oh my!
I'll check out the other band you mentioned. Also, thanks--my mom is actually doing really well, the chemo seems to have worked for the time being. Junk--I told everyone I was going to try it once, and something about sticking a needle in your arm two days before christmas is sexually gratifying in a different way...anyways, the bad far outweighs the good. I feel great now despite the fact that the world is still a stinking pile of shit. Still, without drugs it feels a bit more hopeful then previous times.
We should hang out at somepoint. Sorry I haven't been around and/or keeping in touch. I was in love with myself for far to long.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-29 09:46:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 20:41:15 EST (#)
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This is a continuation of the game of life---MINE!
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Exactly what I meant, I believe you, I get it.
Submitted by spacemonkey (user info) at 2008-02-29 06:37:50 EST (#)
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Clap your hands say yeah...its pretty good. My p2p software is giving me grief despite my willingness to open up the firewall for it, so im forced to use myspace to listen, but yeah i like it. the skin of my country yellow teeth is good.
I got a band for you as well. Estradasphere. Drop what you are doing right now and buy all of their studio albums. Its seriously the best band ever. I can't even describe. Pretty much no lyrics though.
Holy shit this wasn't some sort of joke? To be honest I didn't really think it was. I guess it was only a matter of time before you started using junk. You always had an interest in it. I'm sorry about your mom.
I walked out on my psychologist after he expressed a concern with my dishonesty(with him, i assumed a guy with a phd would be able to tell if i was lying, but whatever) and pushed for me to resume taking risperdone. Risperdone has a terrible side-effect by the way known as retro-grade ejaculation. Pretty much when you ejaculate(which in itself is an accomplishment on risperdone) the seminal fluid is redirected into your bladder instead of well ejaculating out of your body. That has a tendency to produce urinary track infections. I had already stopped seeing my psychiatrist. I occasionally wonder if either of them wonder about me. Hell of a nice guy but fuck it. All we talked about was Russian literature anyway.
anyway fuck psych meds, and fuck people who think that they understand your own mind better than you. 'The hardest person to know is yourself' my ass.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 20:41:15 EST (#)
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This is a continuation of the game of life---MINE! I should write a book no one will read.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 20:40:12 EST (#)
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Trust fund? Hardly--that was the bulk of my savings from past summers to this august (had a cushy state job). My mother recently was diagnosed with cancer (she is like my favorite person ever), my girlfriend and I were having major issues, and I was facing a nervous breakdown because I was starting my senior year of college and I honestly don't want to move forward.
Solution? Take your bank account which you have been sacrificing your well-being into building it up towards a home, grab the nearest phone, and dial 1800GOTDRUG and your temporary happiness is right around the corner!
Just don't come crying to me when it all comes crashing down.
By the way, a good friend of my family took me snowboarding today, and also next week. Something about it being therapeutic (it is). My girlfriend is more or less a trust fund baby. Although she doesn't blow her money like I do, at times I helped her blow a few grand here and there.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 20:37:41 EST (#)
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Nevermind all that, I just read one of your earlier posts and understand this as a continuation in the game of life.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 20:21:06 EST (#)
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BTW, are you a trust fund kid or something? Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, would still have the money to own a computer, let alone to go snowboarding, after blowing 18k on drugs, especially with a dope and coke habit. That's the kind of thing that made me wanna call BS on this.
Schulgin, maybe a quack, maybe no. I do know that he worked for the DEA for some time, which is why he's still allowed to have his own lab at his house, and he's allowed to choose his test subjects. Still a chemical genius though. And no, you're right, he didn't "invent" MDMA, but he was a major proponent of it's use in therapy sessions, which is why people have that misconception.
TihKaL, or PihKaL though, are only good for their somewhat detailed instructions on how to manufacture psychoactive chemical compounds. It really is pointless though since virtually nobody has the access to both lab equipment, and chemical precursors to do it.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 20:15:15 EST (#)
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The 'pity me' part was soley sarcasm. Trouble is, sarcasm is hard to tranlate via the interweb.
My fault.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 20:09:22 EST (#)
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Jeanee- Not Dekalb per se', but Georgia as a whole, more towards the south of the state, but even if you go south of Atlanta in the fall and spring, they're all over the cowfields, and 99% of them are psychoactive. Get a good guide book though, even better yet, find someone who is experienced in it, and make sure they're accredited.
Someone- The joking part was more geared toward the "PITY ME" statement. If this is your life, you deserve no pity. Nobody but yourself is to blame. If you're still having problems with it, grow a pair, get over yourself, and exercise some will-power. It's not the end of the world, I can promise you.
You'll feel like you've got the worse flu in your life for a few days, and then it gets better over time. As long as you don't go back to it, you'll be ok.
Find an anti-drug, and snowboarding seems to be it for you.
Masturbate and get exercise, it'll release endorphins to fill the missing gap.
Talk to people close to you, apologize for fucked up things, you'll feel better with it off your chest.
DO NOT HOWEVER, JOIN NA OR AA, they're fucking cults, and you'll just end up addicted to the meetings as much as drugs. It's just switching one addiction for another, that will make you stupid as well as weak-willed.
If you were joking about the PITY ME part, though it's your right to say it, I have the right to say fuck that, because I don't agree with making fun of pity on those less fortunate. For all my talk about growing a set and developing willpower, I still don't poke fun at them, and I'll still throw some change in their hats, even though I know they'll just use it to fuck their lives up more.
Not sure this makes sense, and maybe I'm out of my place here, but oh well, that's the internet for ya.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:42:25 EST (#)
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Oh, and by the way, Tikhal is written by a quack by the name of Shulgin who is quite frankly a phony of the highest sort. I recently read a quite favorable article on him, the self-proclaimed (this is actually truth) inventor of MDMA, who spends his free time with his equally pathetic wife mixing up toxins to conduct and record on a close group of friends, himself and his wife included. The man is quite intellegent in terms of chemical composure, but obviously so weakly nursed in the fields of sociology it makes me ill. Entertaining read though, I have Tikhal and its companion piece somewhere in my library.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:37:38 EST (#)
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Joking? I spent 18,000 dollars in six months and the only thing I have to show for it is three scars, 40 lost pounds, and a most miserable relationship that is only just now starting to be rebuilt. Of course, the money is not only for dope, but also coke, pills, expensive liqour, and my addiction to high living that only got more consuming the higher and higher I got and the less I seemed to care about things we mere mortals call responsible living.
If I was joking I could come up with a lot better, believe you me. I was playing about getting dope from Iran though. It came from some minority that lived in an urban location nearby that I only visited for Spanish food and drugs.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:34:30 EST (#)
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Dekalb County is a prime spot? Really?
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:33:11 EST (#)
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My sexual stamina has collapsed from three hour opiate induced tantric sessions to twelve minute segments where I apologize and cry with displeasure.
At least my girlfriend was kind enough to grab a dildo and man named Derrik for use only Monday-Thursday. On weekends she closes her eyes and mutters something about a 'terrible mistake' while I work my magic that flew away on a blue pill named 80 milligrams.
Anways, when I go snowboarding on weekdays I imagine I'm floating on a giant white pile of cocaine and it somewhat feels the same if you close your eyes and plow into a tree while listening to Radiohead on full blast via headphones.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:32:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:19:47 EST (#)
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I like coke and opiates but they make me puke. I like weed but it makes me tired and it blows my diet. Meth is a no-can-do because it exacerbates my insomnia. I like acid and mushrooms but where do you even get that shit anymore? I'm a terrible drug addict. Terrible.
Anyway, you're fun.
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For shrooms, you're in a prime spot for them. For acid, look up Tihkal, which is essentially a cookbook for all sorts of chemicals.
Also to someone. You sound like you're joking about that shooting up shit. If not, I've been there myself, and it leads to nowhere good at all. I've never been there, but I've seen it from a distance, and luckily took a quick route out.
Fuck your pity statement though.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:19:47 EST (#)
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I like coke and opiates but they make me puke. I like weed but it makes me tired and it blows my diet. Meth is a no-can-do because it exacerbates my insomnia. I like acid and mushrooms but where do you even get that shit anymore? I'm a terrible drug addict. Terrible.
Anyway, you're fun.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:15:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:07:36 EST (#)
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I see.
Well, compared to the other dope addicts I've met in this life, you seem to have it pretty well together. So there's something you can be proud of. That and your big vocabulary.
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My big vocabulary comes from shooting a Webster's dictionary into my jugular along with some dope that was funky fresh and straight from Iran.
It was mostly a ninth month Oxycontin bender until I met a needle named Sally who told me she was cheaper, blew my mind, and plus sex appeal she told me that lying whore....
I've been clean for almost two months now. Plus, I had only been shooting for about two weeks before I used the dirty needle to puncture my massive ego and I shot down to the meth clinic weeping like a phony.
I'm off that shit now as well. Say it with me: NO MORE REGRESSION MMKAY??
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:07:36 EST (#)
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I see.
Well, compared to the other dope addicts I've met in this life, you seem to have it pretty well together. So there's something you can be proud of. That and your big vocabulary.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:03:36 EST (#)
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PITY ME!
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 19:03:02 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 18:57:35 EST (#)
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How come you even need to see a shrink? It sounds to me like you have the kind of life that drives other people to seek therapy.
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Because I tend to shoot copious amounts of dope, drink vintage Lascombes with a funnel, and mentally abuse each and every person I claim to love. Furthermore, I find that my patterns of 'salvation' into 'regression' are largely circular and if I make improvements in my life it's only to throw it all into the toilet again. In short, I'm simply just a hamster running on an expensive wheel that leads...you guessed it, right back where it's started.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 18:58:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by spacemonkey (user info) at 2008-02-28 11:00:54 EST (#)
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Phychiatrists are evil according to His Holiness Tom Cruise.
The only analyst/therapist (or analrapist as he prefers) for me is Dr. Tobias Fünke.
Seriously though, the brain is an incredibly complex and mysterious organ. Even those most educated in neurology don't fully understand it.
On a related note, a Hull study has concluded that SSRIs, the most commonly perscribed phychiatric medications, are generally ineffective. Naturally the major pharmecutical companies are claiming bad science.
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Did you listen to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah already or what? PS--I don't even understand my brain, and I prefer to keep it that way. Also yes, psych meds are generally ineffective. I've been prescribed a list about a mile long, and I throw it in the trash every time I leave my shrink's office. If I can't conquere my demons alone, all meds are going to do is shove the problems into the future, which I find wasteful and yet somewhat appealing.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 18:57:35 EST (#)
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How come you even need to see a shrink? It sounds to me like you have the kind of life that drives other people to seek therapy.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 18:51:59 EST (#)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2008-02-28 01:05:59 EST (#)
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So, you've switched from gaia to hobbes. Congradulations. Cynicism is either entertaining or depressing.
Your psychologist is apparently misusing Freud, taking what aspects he knows, and fails in the application of treatment, or completely right, and you're just pissed off because you're getting the short end of the deal.
While it could be that her "love" for you is a hollow replacement for a father figure, it could also be the result of personal and emotional progress to allow her to get over her emotional failures and shortcomings. The explanation is better for you, and apparently good for her, but if your psychologist is right, it's not the most emotionally healthy situation in accordance with our societal views.
Either way, ha ha, your life sucks
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Just got home from snowboarding. Weather was crisp and refreshing. Took some great pictures from the summit which I'll probably develop in the darkroom at my leisure (after all, I RARELY work). Had some great runs and an outstanding lunch at Okemo's new summit restaurant Echos. Tomorrow, I'll wake up when I feel like it, hit the gym and read a few more chapters of Moby Dick, then dress and get ready for the WGGBY wine tasting hosted in the Sheraton's conference room, with a seven course dinner and a MASSIVE wine tasting, which, by the way, my company is paying for. Afterwards, my girl and I are getting a room at the Marriott, which is parallel to the Sheraton, and, using my 'friends and family' discount, I'll stay there for about the fraction of what most people pay for a Day's Inn. Saturday, I'll wake up when I feel like it (again), grab a bite to eat and then probably see There Will Be Blood for the third time. Sunday I'll probably just lie around and bother my girlfriend for a blowjob. Of course, I have next week at Killington to prep myself for. You're right, this is me at my lowest, and my LIFE BLOWS.
I'm finished!
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 18:44:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-02-28 02:55:23 EST (#)
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More and more people keep adopting my OTT pompous style of writing and is really weirding me out.
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Except I've been here 9000+ people and 2+ years before you. Thanks, try again, fraud!
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 15:09:27 EST (#)
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Interesting.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 14:59:51 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 13:41:13 EST (#)
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So monkeys, you're like the Incredible Hulk or something? What's your condition, if you don't mind me asking? If you do, just ignore me.
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Not sure to be honest. I've got a myriad of symptoms ranging from the tame (obsessive, extreme anxiety, mild social phobia) to the disruptive (delusions of grandeur, disorganized thoughts, etc)
I also occasionally hear noises, nothing horrible, but children laughing, music playing, footsteps that aren't there.
Very strange things altogether, but until I got married, they weren't TOO much of a problem, since they only affected me, and I was accustomed to them.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2008-02-28 13:50:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 13:41:13 EST (#)
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So monkeys, you're like the Incredible Hulk or something? What's your condition, if you don't mind me asking? If you do, just ignore me.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 13:34:04 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 13:26:14 EST (#)
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Good Lord. How are you even able to type?
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Calms me a bit, but doesn't really faze me. The temazepam was supposed to knock me out in 30 min. Still didn't help me a bit though.
Interesting side note: It was used in the cold war by the soviets as a possible truth serum before Sodium Pentathol was used. The problem though was that it knocked them out after 30 min.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-28 13:26:14 EST (#)
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Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 10:01:39 EST (#)
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Makes sense. I don't see a psychologist, but I'm seeing a psychiatrist who prescribes me Temazepam, Lamictal, Buspar, and Geodon (anti-psychotic/schizo med).
I'm also seeing a therapist next week to work on some social skills issues that are apparently misunderstood and confusing to me.
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Good Lord. How are you even able to type?
Submitted by icarus1987 (user info) at 2008-02-28 13:19:41 EST (#)
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Go masturbate somewhere else, you longwinded idiot.
Submitted by spacemonkey (user info) at 2008-02-28 11:00:54 EST (#)
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Phychiatrists are evil according to His Holiness Tom Cruise.
The only analyst/therapist (or analrapist as he prefers) for me is Dr. Tobias Fünke.
Seriously though, the brain is an incredibly complex and mysterious organ. Even those most educated in neurology don't fully understand it.
On a related note, a Hull study has concluded that SSRIs, the most commonly perscribed phychiatric medications, are generally ineffective. Naturally the major pharmecutical companies are claiming bad science.
Submitted by loopdeloo (user info) at 2008-02-28 10:47:44 EST (#)
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In a related story, police chief Wiggums is investigating allegations that someone has been getting Barney Gumbel drunk.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2008-02-28 10:24:05 EST (#)
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Post was ish.
I really want to go skiing though.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-28 10:01:39 EST (#)
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Makes sense. I don't see a psychologist, but I'm seeing a psychiatrist who prescribes me Temazepam, Lamictal, Buspar, and Geodon (anti-psychotic/schizo med).
I'm also seeing a therapist next week to work on some social skills issues that are apparently misunderstood and confusing to me.
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2008-02-28 09:44:54 EST (#)
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okemo's a good mtn... i like how you can use the tickets at sunapee too
Submitted by ICO (user info) at 2008-02-28 07:53:32 EST (#)
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I love the way you berated yourself, there.
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-02-28 04:50:20 EST (#)
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UGLY!
Submitted by woolfe (user info) at 2008-02-28 04:07:50 EST (#)
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suck it up.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-02-28 03:26:12 EST (#)
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The simple question is: did her father, in fact, not love her? Is her relationship with you part of a pattern? You present a pretty limited explanation after all.
Seems to me if you pay a guy to listen to your problems, it's entirely possible he might just pick up on what your issues might be. They are good like that.
Where there is smoke, there tends to be fire.
Of course, humanity is fucked and unqualified assholes infect every aspect of our daily lives - so can't really help you there, fella.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2008-02-28 03:04:55 EST (#)
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I have made similar claims, Post.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-02-28 02:55:23 EST (#)
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More and more people keep adopting my OTT pompous style of writing and is really weirding me out.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2008-02-28 01:05:59 EST (#)
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So, you've switched from gaia to hobbes. Congradulations. Cynicism is either entertaining or depressing.
Your psychologist is apparently misusing Freud, taking what aspects he knows, and fails in the application of treatment, or completely right, and you're just pissed off because you're getting the short end of the deal.
While it could be that her "love" for you is a hollow replacement for a father figure, it could also be the result of personal and emotional progress to allow her to get over her emotional failures and shortcomings. The explanation is better for you, and apparently good for her, but if your psychologist is right, it's not the most emotionally healthy situation in accordance with our societal views.
Either way, ha ha, your life sucks.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2008-02-28 00:43:00 EST (#)
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Okemo SUCKS go to Jay Peak. Also, it's "suggesting that.." not "suggested that..." you stupid stoner has-been.